ATM Risk Reward

Name: ATM Risk Reward
Brand: UsefulIndicators
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Built for Chart Trader NinjaTrader 8 Add-On

Risk reward indicator for Chart Trader: your real ATM stop and target on the chart before the fill

Never places an entry No vendor license server No machine ID Instant download Free updates Verified on NinjaTrader 8.1.8.2 · 4 Sep 2026

Close on a resting one-contract buy limit at 7597.50 on ES: ATM Risk Reward’ target line tagged 1 Sell LMT +$1325.00 26.50p 2.59R at 7624.00 and stop line tagged 1 Sell STP −$512.50 10.25p 2.59R at 7587.25, with the price axis

A resting four-contract buy limit at 7599.00 with three target lines tagged 1 of 4 and 2 of 4 Sell LMT (+$2500, +$1750, +$2500 with points and R) and three stop lines tagged 1 of 4 and 2 of 4 Sell STP (−$1100, −$1300, −$1750), beside Chart Trader

A resting one-contract sell limit at 7640.00 on a 60-minute ES chart: the stop line above tagged 1 Buy STP −$3587.50 71.75p 1.47R at 7711.75 and the target line below tagged 1 Buy LMT +$5275.00 105.50p 1.47R at 7534.50, beside Chart Trader

A resting three-contract buy limit at 7588.75 on a 60-minute ES chart with the tags in the segmented style: 3 Sell LMT, +$2000.00, 40.00p, 2.00R at 7628.75 and 3 Sell STP, −$1000.00, 20.00p, 2.00R at 7568.75

In a four-contract long: the entry box reads In trade 00:40 beside NinjaTrader’s position box with an open P&L of 0.25 points and 4 contracts; NinjaTrader’s target and stop lines each carry an ATM Risk Reward tag with dollars, points, R and covers 1 of 4 or 2 of 4

The same four-contract long at 01:47 in the trade with custom colors: blue target tags and lines, red stop tags, NinjaTrader’s position box with an open P&L of −2.25 points and 4 contracts beside the entry box

A four-contract long with the ticks column switched on: target tags reading dollars, ticks, points, R and covers, for example +$2237.50 179t 44.75p 1.85R covers 2 of 4, and the entry box with In trade 03:14 and Entry 19:35:30 @ 7605.75, beside NinjaTrader’s position box with an open P&L of −2.50 points and 4 contracts

ATM Risk Reward in a filled long: the target line tagged +$500, 40 ticks, 10 points, 2.00R, the stop line tagged −$250, 20 ticks, 5 points, and the entry box with time in trade, entry time and entry price

ATM Risk Reward on an MES chart, in a two-contract long: two target lines tagged +$500 and +$1000 with points, R and covers 1 of 2, two stop lines tagged −$500 and −$750, and the entry box showing time in trade, beside NinjaTrader’s position box with the open P&L and 2 contracts

The closed-trade table after a ten-contract long: clears in 19s, result −$250.00, −0.50 points, −0.50R, exit by manual, entry 7604.50, exit 7604.00, entry and exit times, time 00:41, drawdown 0.75p, best 0.00p

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Your stop loss and target, start to finish.

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The target tag — the profit at target in dollars, the distance in ticks and points, and the reward-to-risk of the order.

The entry box — time in trade, entry time and price; the open P&L and the contracts beside it are NinjaTrader’s own position box.

The stop tag — the dollars at risk, ticks, points and R. An impossible price draws no line and tells you why.

The target line — drawn the moment the entry is resting, in your Chart Trader color and style.

Before the fill and after it
Drag it, the ATM target moves
Follows the entry when you move it
Wrong side ignored, never guessed

NinjaTrader’s entry line — ATM Risk Reward draws beside it and never places, cancels or fires an entry.

Move the entry in Chart Trader
The whole stop and target glide with it
Written to your ATM, read back
Chart Trader stays in charge

The stop line — drawn before the entry fills and kept beside NinjaTrader’s own line after it, in your Chart Trader style.

Drag it before the fill
A refusal changes nothing
Own colors, opacity and gap
Safety mode on platform updates

The linesColour and style from your Chart Trader settings. Style them once, in NinjaTrader.

The boxesStop, target and entry: each its own colors, opacity and gap to the line. The table its own colors too.

The closed-trade tableResult, R, drawdown, best, duration, exit type. Fades when you say.

Before the fill, during the trade, after the exit

Before the fill: a resting buy limit at 7657.00 on MES with the target line tagged 1 Sell LMT +$55.00 44t 11.00p 1.57R at 7668.00 and the stop line tagged 1 Sell STP −$35.00 28t 7.00p 1.57R at 7650.00, beside the price axis

In the trade: a filled long at 7660.00 on MES with the entry box reading In trade 03:33 beside NinjaTrader’s position box with an open P&L of 0.75 points and 1 contract, NinjaTrader’s target at 7671.00 tagged +$55.00 11.00p 1.57R and stop at 7653.00 tagged −$35.00 7.00p 1.57R

After the trade: the closed-trade table, clears in 9s, result +$0.00, +0.00 points, +0.00R, exit by manual, entry and exit 7660.00, size 1 long, entry time 10:26:34, exit time 10:31:00, time in trade 04:26, drawdown 1.75p, best 1.00p

What ATM Risk Reward adds to Chart Trader.

Stop & target	Chart Trader	ATM Risk Reward
Stop and target after the fill NinjaTrader’s own lines, as always	✓	✓
Stop and target before the fill drawn the moment the entry is resting		✓
Drag either line, the real stop or target follows written to your ATM, read back, then moved		✓
Ticks, dollars, points and R on every line before the fill and after it		✓
Lines follow the entry when you move it glide the entry, the stop and target glide with it		✓
After the fill
Stat tags beside NinjaTrader’s lines dollars, points and R from your actual fill price		✓
Entry box with the trade clock time in trade, entry time and price		✓
Closed-trade table result, R, drawdown, best, duration; fades when you say		✓
Correct by design
All five ATM parameter types ticks, pips, percent, currency and price, each read NinjaTrader’s way		✓
Refuses rather than guesses an unverified template shows a ? and cannot be dragged		✓
Price-mode check before the fill an impossible price draws no line and tells you why		✓
Safety mode on a platform change display stays on, dragging stops, one plain message		✓
Yours to set
Line colors and styles from your Chart Trader settings style them once, in NinjaTrader	✓	✓
Every box its own colors, opacity and gap gap for the stop, target and entry boxes; colors and opacity for the closed-trade table too		✓
Everything adjustable 54 settings across 9 groups		✓

Works on

Chart types

Tickany count

Minuteany

Volumeany size

Range, Renkoany size

Instruments

Futuresall US-dollar contracts

Stocksand ETFs

FX and CFDssome modes not draggable

Data providerany

Needs

NinjaTrader 88.1.8 or newer, free included

Chart Traderopen on the chart, required

ATM strategyselected on the entry

Machine IDnone

In short: NinjaTrader 8 with Chart Trader open and an ATM strategy on your entries. That is all ATM Risk Reward needs.

Orders placed without an ATM strategy are not shown, by design. On a chart without Chart Trader it deliberately does nothing. It never places, cancels or fires an entry order; dragging a line changes a real order at your broker, so confirm the bracket in Chart Trader before the fill.

Every setting, group by group.

ATM Risk Reward has 54 settings in nine groups, in the order of a trade: before the fill, during it, after the exit. The names in bold are the names you will see in the properties panel.

Stop loss and target lines before the fill

The moment an ATM entry rests, the stop loss and profit target are drawn where NinjaTrader will place them at the fill. Show stop line and Show target line switch each side, line and tag together; Show stop price marker and Show target price marker put the prices on the axis like NinjaTrader’s own, up to four levels per side. Each of the five ATM parameter types is read NinjaTrader’s way.

Drag the line and the real order moves

Allow dragging (on) lets you hold a stop or target line and drag it, or click its tag once to pick it up, exactly like NinjaTrader’s own orders. The drop is written into your ATM strategy in the template’s own units and read back, and only then does the line move; a refusal writes nothing. Follow entry while moving it keeps both lines gliding with the entry.

R multiple: the risk reward ratio on every tag

Show R multiple puts the reward-to-risk ratio on the pending tags: 1.5R means the target is 1.5 times the stop distance. After the fill, Tag: show R multiple measures it from your actual fill with the stop and target as they are now, so a moved stop changes the number. When the trade closes, Show result in R scores the result against the risk you took at the start.

Order lines with dollars, ticks and points

Show dollars, Show points (on, “4.25p”) and Show ticks (off) set what each pending order line’s tag reads, next to Show order (“1 Sell STP”, or “1 of 3 Sell STP” for a bracket row covering fewer contracts). Tag: show dollars, Tag: show points and Tag: show ticks make the same choice for the stat tags during the trade. Dollars per contract shows every dollar figure for one contract instead of the whole order.

The entry box and the trade clock

Show entry box draws a small box on your position line with a clock: “In trade 05:12” with Entry box: show text labels on, a bare timer with it off. Entry box: show entry time and Entry box: show entry price add the time and your average fill. Every box has its own color, text color, opacity and a gap to NinjaTrader’s boxes, measured from where NinjaTrader actually drew them.

The closed-trade table after every exit

The moment the position is flat, a table appears in the Closed trade table position corner for Show closed trade for (seconds) (30), with a countdown. Rows you switch on: the result in dollars and points, the result in R, exit by (stop, target or manual), entry and exit price and time, size and direction, duration, Show drawdown (how far it went against you) and Show best price reached.

NinjaTrader’s ATM Strategy Parameters dialog with the parameter type list open, showing the five choices Currency, Percent, Price, Ticks and Pips, above ten target rows each with quantity, stop loss, profit and stop strategy — Works on all ATM parameters as well as all Chart Trader options
Ticks, pips, percent, currency or price, read NinjaTrader’s way.

A resting three-contract buy limit with its stop loss and profit target drawn before the fill: three target lines tagged 1 of 3 Sell LMT +$750, +$625 and +$500 with points and R, and three stop lines tagged 1 of 3 Sell STP −$125, −$250 and −$375, beside the price axis — Use as many stop and target lines as you want
Each stop and target has its own line and tag, showing exactly what you want it to show.

A resting buy limit with the stop loss and target in custom colors: a white target line tagged 1 Sell LMT +$600.00 12.00p 1.50R, a blue dotted stop line tagged 1 Sell STP −$400.00 8.00p 1.50R, NinjaTrader’s own 1 Buy LMT box and the price axis — Any color, line type, opacity and style
All visuals are customizable, because we know this is important for traders.

Two closed-trade tables side by side, one in the default white-on-black style and one in a blue style: clears in, result −$12.50, −0.25 points, −0.10R, exit by manual, entry 7648.25, exit 7648.00, size 1 long, entry and exit times, time 00:02 — The closed-trade table
All the stats about your trade instantly visible, turn on/off what you want displayed.

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How traders use it

Four moments in a trade where seeing the stop loss and target early matters. None of them is a signal; the entries, the stops and the discipline are still yours.

Before the fillThe resting-order adjust

Your limit is resting and the market shifts. Drag the stop under the new swing, or the target to the level that matters, before the fill, instead of after.

SizingThe R read

The target line says +2.0R and the stop says −$62.50 for the order before you commit. If the number is wrong for the trade, you see it while it is still free to fix.

SafetyThe price-mode catch

A Price-mode template holding a distance instead of a price would put your stop at price 10.00 and leave a filled position naked. ATM Risk Reward draws no line and tells you, before the fill.

After the tradeThe post-mortem

The closed-trade table shows the result in dollars and R, the drawdown you sat through and the best price you saw, so the numbers are still on screen when you write it up.

New to ATM strategies? Read the ATM strategy guide →

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How do I install it?

Download the zip after checkout, then in NinjaTrader 8 go to Tools → Import → NinjaScript Add-On and pick the file. Add ATM Risk Reward to a chart that has Chart Trader open, place an ATM entry, and the lines are there — most traders are done in under a minute. The step-by-step guide covers every message NinjaTrader can show and the update rule.

Does it show my stop loss and profit target orders?

Those are exactly the orders it draws. Your ATM strategy creates a stop loss and a profit target behind the entry — NinjaTrader’s own names for what most traders call the stop and the take profit — and ATM Risk Reward puts both on the chart as order lines while the entry is still pending, with the dollars, ticks, points and R on each line. Drag either one and the real order moves. It never creates the orders itself: your ATM template and Chart Trader stay in charge. If ATM strategies are new to you, our guide to NinjaTrader risk reward tools explains where the stop loss and profit target actually come from.

Does it place, change or automate orders?

It never places, cancels or fires an entry order; your workflow stays native Chart Trader. When you drag a line, ATM Risk Reward writes the new stop or target into your live ATM strategy — that is a real change to a real order at your broker, which is the whole point. Confirm the bracket in Chart Trader before the entry fills; Chart Trader is always the source of truth.

Why does it need Chart Trader?

ATM Risk Reward reads your account and your orders through the Chart Trader panel on that chart — it never picks an account on its own. On a chart without Chart Trader it deliberately does nothing and says so in the Output window; open Chart Trader (the collapsed view is enough) and it starts by itself. If the panel is missing or greyed out, our Chart Trader guide covers how to enable it and what to check.

Which ATM parameter types does it understand?

All five, each read the way NinjaTrader defines it: ticks and pips as a distance from your entry, percent as a share of the entry price, currency as the money for the whole bracket, and price as the actual level. Templates it cannot verify against a real fill — currency with several bracket rows, currency on a non-dollar instrument, pips on anything but futures — are shown with a ? and cannot be dragged. On forex, CFDs and crypto, where pip size varies, pips lines are not drawn at all.

What happens when NinjaTrader updates?

ATM Risk Reward checks every internal surface it relies on when it loads. If an update has moved one, it switches to safety mode: the display keeps working, dragging is switched off, and one plain message tells you to check for an ATM Risk Reward update. Your orders are never affected by that; they stay exactly as NinjaTrader recorded them.

A drag snapped back. Why?

That is a refusal, and a refusal never changes your orders. The usual reasons: display-only mode is on, the entry was busy updating (try again in a second), or the drop landed on the wrong side of the entry — the preview says so while you hold it there. The full reason is always written to the NinjaScript Output window.

Is this a buy/sell signal system?

No, and we won’t pretend it is. It shows you the stop loss and target you have already chosen, where it will land and what it risks, and lets you move it before the fill. Which trade to take, and where the stop belongs, is still yours.

Should I try it on Sim first?

Yes. It is a tool that changes real orders, so run it on your Sim account for a session or two, drag a few stops and targets, watch Chart Trader agree, and only then trade it live. That is how it was built and tested, for weeks, before it shipped.

Is this a risk reward drawing tool?

No. NinjaTrader’s own Risk Reward drawing tool, and the add-ons built on the same idea, draw a planned trade: you sketch the entry, stop and target and read the ratio. ATM Risk Reward draws nothing you plan. It shows the real stop loss and profit target your ATM strategy will place, on the chart while the entry is still resting, and dragging a line moves the real order. If the planning tool is what you want, our guide to NinjaTrader risk reward tools covers the built-in one and the add-ons.

Can NinjaTrader show the stop loss and take profit before the order fills?

Not by itself. NinjaTrader draws the stop loss and profit target lines when the entry fills; while the entry is resting, the bracket lives only in the ATM strategy’s numbers. ATM Risk Reward reads those numbers and draws both lines where they will land, tagged with dollars, points and R (ticks if you want them), so you see the whole bracket before you are in the trade and can move it while it is still free to fix.

Does it show the risk reward ratio (R) on the chart?

Yes, three ways. Before the fill, the R multiple on the tags is the target distance divided by the stop distance: 2.00R means the target is twice as far as the stop. During the trade, the tags measure R from your actual fill price with the stop and target as they are now, so a stop moved to breakeven changes the number. After the exit, the closed-trade table scores the result against the risk you took at the start, for example +1.80R.

Does it work with ATM templates that have several targets?

Yes. Every stop and every target in the template is its own line with its own tag, and a bracket row that covers fewer contracts than the order reads “1 of 3 Sell STP” with the dollars for that row. The price markers on the axis show up to four levels per side. One limit: a Currency template with several bracket rows is shown with a ? and cannot be dragged, because its conversion is not fill-verified.

What if I need help or find a problem?

Email support, answered by the traders who built it. If something looks wrong, switch on Diagnostics, trade briefly on Sim and send us the log it writes — it stays on your computer until you choose to send it. Bugs get fixed, and updates are free.

The Nerd Vault

What the lines are, what a drag writes, and the rules that keep it honest with your orders.

How it’s calculated

Line = entry ± the template’s value

The moment an ATM entry is resting on the chart’s account and instrument, ATM Risk Reward reads its ATM strategy and draws the stop loss and target where NinjaTrader will put them at the fill. Each of the five parameter types is read NinjaTrader’s way: ticks and pips as a distance, percent as a share of the entry price, currency as the money for the whole bracket, price as the level itself.

Drag = write, read back, then move

A drop converts the price under the mouse into the template’s own units, writes it into the live ATM strategy, and reads the bracket back. The line moves only when the read-back matches. A refusal — wrong side of the entry, an order mid-update, an unverified template — snaps the line back and writes nothing.

R = reward ÷ risk from the real fill after it fills

Before the fill, R is the target distance over the stop distance. After it, every tag is measured from your actual fill price, and the closed-trade result is scored against the risk you started the trade with, not the stop you trailed it to.

Hover a term to see it in the drawing and the table

TargetStopEntryWrittenline colors are your Chart Trader’s

One trade, drawn to the worked example below. An illustration with a compressed time axis, not market data. Line colors on your chart are your Chart Trader’s own.

Worked example · one stop, five parameter types, MES long from 7541.75, 1 lotTick 0.25 · $1.25 per tick · $5 per point

Type	Template says	NinjaTrader means	Stop lands at	Ticks	Risk, 1 lot	Draggable
Ticks	20	20 ticks below the entry	7536.75	20	$25.00	yes
Pips	20	on futures a pip is a tick	7536.75	20	$25.00	yes (futures)
Percent	0.20	0.20% of 7541.75 = 15.08 pts, nearest tick	7526.75	60	$75.00	yes
Currency	50	$50 for the whole bracket, ÷ contracts	7531.75	40	$50.00	yes (single row)
Price	7530.00	the stop’s actual price level	7530.00	47	$58.75	yes
Price	10	a stop AT price 10.00 — the exchange rejects it	no line	—	warning	fix it first

Every conversion is written back in the template’s own units, so a drag on a Percent template writes a percent and a drag on a Currency template writes dollars; NinjaTrader then does exactly what it would have done had you typed the number. Currency with several bracket rows, Currency on a non-dollar instrument, and Pips on anything but futures are shown with a ? and never written: their conversions are not fill-verified. On forex, CFDs and crypto, where pip size varies, Pips lines are not drawn at all.

Never places an entry

Every entry is placed, moved and canceled by you, in Chart Trader. ATM Risk Reward reads the account Chart Trader has selected and never picks one itself; it touches nothing but the stop and target values of the bracket you drag. There is no order button in it, and there never will be one.

Write, then read back

The line moves only after NinjaTrader confirms the value it holds. The order state is re-checked immediately before every single write, so a fill arriving during a drag closes the window as far as the platform allows. Nothing is ever written on the strength of where the mouse is.

Measured, not predicted

After the fill our tags sit beside NinjaTrader’s own order boxes. Their width is measured in your chart’s font every frame, and the position row is read from where NinjaTrader actually draws it, so the spacing holds across charts, monitors, DPI and font sizes. The three gap settings are for taste, not calibration.

Safety mode

ATM Risk Reward relies on NinjaTrader surfaces that an update could change. Every one is verified at load; if any has moved, the display keeps working, dragging is switched off and one plain message asks you to check for an update. The failure is visible and it is safe: display on, dragging off.

This is the actual settings panel in NinjaTrader — it follows the life of a trade: before the fill, during, after — with plain-English names and no cryptic abbreviations. Every row in the table below is one of these. Line colors, thickness and style are not here on purpose: they follow your Chart Trader Lines settings, so the pending bracket looks exactly like the lines NinjaTrader draws at the fill.

Setting	Default	Range
General
Allow dragging	On	On · Off
Follow entry while moving it	On	On · Off
Dollars per contract	Off	On · Off
Display
Show stop line	On	On · Off
Show target line	On	On · Off
Show stats after fill	On	On · Off
Show stop price marker	On	On · Off
Show target price marker	On	On · Off
Show entry box	On	On · Off
Show separator lines	Off	On · Off
Before Trade Info
Show order	On	On · Off
Show dollars	On	On · Off
Show points	On	On · Off
Show R multiple	On	On · Off
Show ticks	Off	On · Off
During Trade Info
Tag: show dollars	On	On · Off
Tag: show points	On	On · Off
Tag: show R multiple	On	On · Off
Tag: show ticks	Off	On · Off
Entry box: show entry time	Off	On · Off
Entry box: show entry price	Off	On · Off
Entry box: show text labels	On	On · Off
Closed Trade Info
Show trade result	On	On · Off
Show result in R	On	On · Off
Show exit by	On	On · Off
Show entry price	On	On · Off
Show exit price	On	On · Off
Show size and direction	On	On · Off
Show trade duration	On	On · Off
Show entry time	On	On · Off
Show exit time	On	On · Off
Show drawdown	On	On · Off
Show best price reached	On	On · Off
Show disappear countdown	On	On · Off
Show closed trade for (seconds)	30	0 – 600
Closed trade table position	Bottom Right	Bottom Right · Bottom Left · Top Right · Top Left
Box color	#0F0F12 at 90%	Any color
Text color	White	Any color
Box opacity (%)	100	0 – 100
Stop Box Visuals
Use custom colors	Off	On · Off
Box color	Red	Any color
Text color	White	Any color
Box opacity (%)	100	0 – 100
Box gap (pixels)	9	0 – 1000
Target Box Visuals
Use custom colors	Off	On · Off
Box color	Lime Green	Any color
Text color	Black	Any color
Box opacity (%)	100	0 – 100
Box gap (pixels)	9	0 – 1000
Entry Box Visuals
Box color	#0F0F12 at 90%	Any color
Text color	White	Any color
Box opacity (%)	100	0 – 100
Box gap (pixels)	9	0 – 1000
Diagnostics
Enable diagnostics	Off	On · Off

Ranges are printed only where the indicator enforces one. Colors accept any color.

There is no bar logic at all: ATM Risk Reward is driven by order events, so it costs the same on a tick chart as on a daily one and works on every bar type by construction. Text layouts and measured widths are cached until the font or the text changes; the draw pass runs only when something on screen can have changed, with an idle gate when nothing is happening. It keeps running with the chart tab in the background, because a resting order does not care which tab you are looking at. If your chart ever lags with ATM Risk Reward on, that is a bug and we want to hear about it.

A drop writes the stop or target of that order’s ATM strategy, in the units the template uses, and affects that order only: the template you saved is untouched. Currency is written as the money for the whole bracket, the way NinjaTrader reads it, so a two-lot order and a one-lot order at the same dollar risk land at different distances, exactly as they would from the template. One honest limit: a fill landing in the same instant as a write can, in principle, let one last change through; the order state is re-checked immediately before every write to make that window as small as the platform allows. Confirm the bracket in Chart Trader before the fill.

The file: ATMRiskReward_v1.2.zip, 250 KB. A standard NinjaScript add-on: Tools → Import in NinjaTrader 8, nothing else to install. Delivered instantly on the checkout page and in your email receipt.
The license: One-time purchase, yours to keep. No machine ID and no activation step: install it on every computer you own.
Updates: Every update is free and installs the same way, over the top of the old one.
Support: Email, answered by the traders who built it. Bugs get fixed. A step-by-step installation guide and the support page are there if you ever need them.

Platform: NinjaTrader 8.1.8 or newer (verified on 8.1.8.2), the free tier included. Chart Trader open on the chart (collapsed is fine) — without it ATM Risk Reward deliberately does nothing and keeps checking. One license, every computer you own.
ATM only: A stop loss or profit target placed without an ATM strategy is not shown. Manual exits placed with ATM Strategy set to None are not counted in the closed-trade table; the Size row always shows what was counted.
Not draggable: Currency templates with several bracket rows, Currency on non-dollar instruments, and Pips on anything but futures show a ? and cannot be dragged: their conversions are not fill-verified. On forex, CFDs and crypto, where pip size varies, Pips lines are not drawn at all.
Price mode: NinjaTrader reads a Price-mode value as the actual price level. A distance typed there puts your stop loss at, say, price 10.00, the exchange rejects it, and the filled position has no protection. ATM Risk Reward draws no line for an impossible or wrong-side price and tells you, before the fill. If you want distances, use Ticks.
Partial fills: The moment any contract fills, the pending lines hand off to NinjaTrader’s own display and the stat tags carry on from there.
NinjaTrader restarts: If NinjaTrader is restarted while an entry is working, NinjaTrader discards the ATM strategy but keeps the entry order: it would fill with no stop and no target. ATM Risk Reward shows that order without bracket lines — treat it as the warning it is. Closing NinjaTrader mid-trade also drops the trade record (clock, initial risk, banked partial exits); settings changes, workspace reloads and reconnects keep it.
Scale-ins and outages: Adding contracts at a new price, or a data-feed gap during the trade, hides the Drawdown and Best rows for that trade: those two numbers can no longer be stated as whole-trade truth. The dollar result stays exact. Reverse (Rev) trades restart the clock; the reversed-out trade’s result is not shown.
Instances: One ATM Risk Reward per chart. Two draw everything twice; order safety is unaffected. On a continuous-contract chart with two live expiries of the same future, the closed-trade table cannot attribute fills between the legs.

ATM Risk Reward makes no network connection of any kind. Nothing about you, your account, your orders or your trades is sent anywhere, and there is no telemetry. The optional diagnostics log, for support, is written to your own NinjaTrader folder; it contains your account name, order ids, prices and quantities, and it leaves your computer only if you choose to email it to us.

Verification

Runs on: NinjaTrader 8.1.8.2.
Last checked: 4 Sep 2026, on our own live charts. The date changes only when the indicator has actually been run on that version.
Current build: v1.2, released 7 Sep 2026. Every update is free.

Changelog

v1.2 · 20 Sep 2026: Renamed to ATM Risk Reward. The tool is unchanged — same code, same licence, same chart behaviour. If you already own it, your licence carries over automatically; after updating you will see the new name in your indicator list.
v1.1 · 15 Sep 2026: While you drag NinjaTrader's own stop or target box during a live trade, the stat tag now rides along and shows the dollars, points and R for the price under your mouse, measured from your real fill.
v1.0 · 7 Sep 2026: Initial release: pending-bracket stop and target lines with drag, all five ATM parameter types read NinjaTrader's way, pre-fill price-mode validation, post-fill stat tags measured from the real fill, entry box with the trade clock, closed-trade table, safety mode on a platform change.

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Not for you if you trade without ATM strategies or without Chart Trader: ATM Risk Reward reads both and does nothing on a chart without them. And it will never place an entry for you.

Pairs well with Key levels indicator (Intraday Reference Levels) · ProVWAP VWAP indicator · Free initial balance indicator (Live IB Range)

Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. ATM Risk Reward is a charting and order-display tool — it is not a trade signal, recommendation, or financial advice. Dragging a line changes a real order at your broker: confirm every bracket in Chart Trader before the entry fills. Chart Trader is always the source of truth. ATM Risk Reward reads NinjaTrader’s internal order objects and can stop working after a platform update, a lost connection or an error, without warning; your orders are unaffected when it does. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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